White Women for Black Lives
June 11, 2020
—Zillah Eisenstein
Read a speech written for several rallies in the past week on behalf of #BlackLivesMatter and the multi-racial protests for an end to white supremacy and carceral rule.
Category: Current Events
Taking power from police and putting it into communities
June 10, 2020
—Jennifer E. Cobbina
Ending police killings of Black people will not take place by continuously investing in the police.
The Tip of the Iceberg—Victor M. Rios on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter protests
June 9, 2020
—Victor M. Rios Police killings of unarmed Black people are the tip of the iceberg. In Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, I write about a system… READ MORE
A Message of Love and Mutual Respect
Author Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier shares a series of stories about taking action in times of crisis from The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement.
Black Study in a Time of Trouble: A Reading List
June 4, 2020
—Joshua M. Myers
The beauty of Blackness is its capacity for regard and wonder, even in the times of trouble. It is how we have lived.
Excerpt from Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin
Read several excerpts from Alex Zamalin’s book Antiracism: An Introduction
A Lesson for Zoom Elementary
June 3, 2020
—Candis Watts Smith
This is the last week of COVID crisis-schooling for many of us, and there’s one more lesson that we should teach our children and remind ourselves before we move into a camp-less summer: racism isn’t over there or back then, it’s right where you live, right now.
The Meaning of DACA
June 2, 2020
—Kevin Johnson, Michael A. Olivas, and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
How will the story of DACA be remembered?